The author is a poet, counsellor, and occasional scholar-in-residence. Musings on everything from advaita ("non-dualism") to sustainable living, interspersed with poems. Thanks to Zvi Jaspan of Kibbutz Tzora for the name for this blog.

Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Plausible quotations and statistics

Chief
archeologist Yigal Alon-Tamir says that hundreds of two-thousand year
old chocolate coins minted by the Maccabees have been discovered at a
dig near the town of Shechem. His team have left a few of the coins
uneaten, so that expert chocleteurs can analyse them and discover what's
changed in chocolate making techniques in the last 2 300 years.
"they're not bad" says Professor Alon Tamir, "sure a little stale, but
nothing worse than the kinds of things you'll find on the shelves of
petrol station shops or 24/7 convenience stores."____________________________

One
out of five children between the ages on 9-17 has a diagnosable mental
disorder....(i.e it is possible to pathologize and pin a label on at
least one out of five children, generally as a way of handling the
parent's or teacher's unresolved anxieties and blind spots)

"Everyone's got to serve someone"

a "hogeh deyot" - Hebrew for someone who thinks a lot about things that are not directly related to the daily round. I worships two G?ds, that are probably one and the same - creativity and balance. Sat. Chit. Ananda. Gila Rina Ditza ve Chedva. Adoshem Hu Elokim. Veshal-om shanti shanti.